WATCH: 48 automobiles broken after truck loses management on Pune-Bengaluru freeway bridge

Greater than 40 automobiles had been broken after a truck misplaced management on the downward slope of a bridge on the Pune-Bengaluru freeway, by which a number of individuals obtained injured and eight had been hospitalised. Ten to fifteen individuals acquired minor accidents and got first support on the spot. The incident occurred on the freeway’s Navale bridge. The bridge is susceptible to accidents as a result of excessive slope of the highway and the excessive velocity of the automobiles. 

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone III) Suhel Sharma mentioned that the truck misplaced management because of “suspected brake failure” and a minimum of 24 automobiles together with the truck obtained broken within the accident, as per the information company PTI. Of those, 22 had been vehicles and one was an autorickshaw. Sharma additional talked about that there was no lack of human life within the accident. 

An eyewitness instructed the information company that the rushing truck crashed into some automobiles on the highway, which in flip, hit different automobiles. He mentioned that his automobile was additionally hit and there have been 4 individuals within the car on the time of the incident. 

He added, “We had been 4 individuals within the car and thankfully, nothing occurred to us because the airbags opened, however we noticed that a number of automobiles round us on the highway had been badly hit.”